Theory

The funny thing about your body is how it should exist in the first place. And that, all things considered, it doesn’t fully belong to you. Your body is a biome. It is an environment home to a plethora of organisms, parasitic bacteria of huge quantities, the symbiotic and parasitic, as well as the largely indifferent: fifty percent of the DNA in your body is not even human DNA.

Blood – let’s start with that. Blood is the very stuff of life after all. In order to live longer, would one need to transfer youthful blood into the body of an elder? “Does this qualify said elder as a vampire?” I hear you ask. Quite possibly. “Is this real?”. Most certainly.

The count now stands at 3505. And, by the time you read this, it will probably be a lot higher...

Two decades ago, the fact that other planets existed beyond your, correction, our solar system was not known for sure. The perpetual discovery of exoplanets orbiting distant stars other than our own stalwart Sun is about to sprout.